So here’s the deal, I have kept my Lenten promises all the way up until Pentecost. This is the first time that I have done this and that feels great! I really haven’t been listening to music. But now, since it is after Pentecost, I can resume normal activities.
I saw a reel of Prince wearing a red hat when he was inducted into the rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame with Tom Petty, Bob Seger and George Harrison was inducted posthumously.
Wait. What? How did I not know this? Well the reason is because on March 15, 2004. I was still an undergrad. I still lived with my Parents and my son was three years old. I did not watch things on TV for myself back then. It was a lot of Playhouse Disney.
After I watched that reel, I had to see the performance. It was mind blowing! The next day, the remastered versions of that video came with an explanation:
And here’s the explanation:
And then I started seeing reels of the Super Bowl performance, and I had to watch!!!
And this one too:
This one popped up in my phone last night and I had to include it:
I’m thinking that Prince reels started showing up in my phone because I talked about my friend Aseal talking about the hajj. She has loved Prince for my whole life! Seeing these videos popping up in my phone makes me think of her. I saw her once when I was teaching. She was also teaching, but it was in passing, and that was it.
I have been thinking about her since I read about the mayor of Dearborn going on the hajj and this Prince just make me smile.